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Dec 2023
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The Tablet Book Club – ‘A Faithful Spy’ ...

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Award-winning writer and former Financial Times journalist Jimmy Burns’ latest book A Faithful Spy, based on previously undisclosed personal private papers of former MI6 and MI5 officer, Walter Bell, gives a remarkable insight into the working of British Intelligence. In this Tablet podcast, Emily Buchanan of the BBC talks to Jimmy Burns about the book and some of the startling things that he uncovered during his research.

In this article in The Tablet Jimmy Burns gives further insight into the life of Walter Bell.

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